Jeanne Robert (historian) explained

Jeanne Robert
Birth Date:31 December 1910
Birth Place:Houplines, France
Death Place:Montrouge, France
Nationality:French
Discipline:Classical antiquity
Birth Name:Jeanne Ismérie Vanseveren

Jeanne Ismérie Robert (pronounced as /fr/; ; 31 December 191030 January 2002) was a French ancient historian, epigrapher, co-author and editor of many volumes on Greek epigraphy.

Personal life

Robert was born Jeanne Ismérie Vanseveren on 31 December 1910, in Houplines.[1] She married Louis Robert in 1938,[2] and began collaborating with him from around that time until his death in 1985.[3] She donated Robert's archive of documents, ranging from epigraphic squeezes to photographs of inscriptions and sites,[4] to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1998. She entrusted Glen Bowersock with oversight over the documents' use for research, with the assistance of François Chamoux, Jean-Louis Ferrary and Béatrice Meyer. A separate archive of both the Roberts' archaeological activities in Turkey after the Second World War is kept at the library of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art.[5]

She died on 30 January 2002, in Montrouge.

Career

Robert was a specialist in modern and Ancient Greek, as well as Turkish.[6] She began publishing the Bulletin épigraphique, a regular part of the journal Revue des Études Grecques, with Louis Robert from 1938 to 1984.[7] She also worked with him on excavations,[8] particularly at Amyzou and the sanctuary of Apollo at Claros, between 1946 and 1964,[9] and collaborated with him on certain volumes of the series Hellenica.[10]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. Web site: Notice de personne "Robert, Jeanne (1910-2002)" BnF Catalogue général - Bibliothèque nationale de France. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  2. Web site: AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) - Robert, Louis. AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA).
  3. Web site: Robert, Jeanne - Persée. www.persee.fr. 2019-10-25.
  4. Knoepfler. Denis. 2008-12-01. Dixième anniversaire de la création du fonds Louis Robert. Dixième anniversaire de la création du fonds Louis Robert à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Journée d’étude organisée par le Pr Denis Knoepfler (Collège de France et Institut de France), 7 novembre 2008. La lettre du Collège de France. fr. 24. 36–37. 10.4000/lettre-cdf.659. 1628-2329. free.
  5. Web site: AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Instit national d'histoire de l'art (INHA). 30 November 2019.
  6. Bowersock. Glen. 2008. Louis Robert : La gloire et la joie d’une vie consacrée à l’Antiquité grecque. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 152-4. 1557–1573. Persée.
  7. Web site: Bulletin épigraphique Revue des Études Grecques. www.revue-des-etudes-grecques.com. 2019-10-25.
  8. Book: Hall, Edith. Women Classical Scholars. Rosie. Wyles. Oxford University Press. 2016. Wyles. Rosie. Oxford. 5. Introduction: Approaches to the Fountain. Hall. Edith . Edith Hall .
  9. Web site: LE FONDS LOUIS ROBERT. 2011-03-03. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. fr. 2019-10-25.
  10. Web site: Collection Hellenica. www.edition-maisonneuve.com. 2019-11-30.

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